Relation of My Imprisonment - Russell Banks, Arturo Patten torrent

Category: General Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Fiction

Written by Russell Banks, Arturo Patten
Read by John Pruden
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Relation of My Imprisonment
Author: Russell Banks
Reader: John Pruden
Audiobook Copyright: 2013-11-12
Publisher: HarperAudio
Duration: 3 hrs 44 mins
ISBN: 9780062311054
Subjects: Fiction

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 52.4 MB
Bitrate: 32 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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The Relation of My Imprisonment a work of fiction utilizing a form
invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines.
Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren
outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative
dramatization of the test of fait all true believers must endure.
These “relation,” framed by scripture and by a sermon explicating the
text, were usually read aloud in weekly or monthly installments during
religious services. Utterly sincere and detailed recounting of
suffering, they were nonetheless highly artificial. To use the form
self-consciously, as Russell Banks has done, is not to parody it so
much as to argue good-humoredly with the mind it embodies, to explore
and, if possible, to map the limits of that mind, the more
intelligently to love it.